I'm a huge Nintendo fan. Been a fan since the 90's. Though I had my share of Sega and Sony and Microsoft in between, I basically owned and spent most of my time playing Donkey Kong, Mario, Metroid, and Zelda. To this very day, I maintain a huge library of Nintendo games and a few products. Now, I wonder if I'm the last man on earth who cares about Nintendo.

As I read over hundreds of articles, I see lots of arguments over consoles. Barely, I would find a mention of Nintendo in the midst of console wars. Mainly, it's Microsoft and Sony fans going at it constantly, saying which is better in graphics, development and features. All the while, PC fans look over those two groups and deem them as inferior in comparison. Whenever I do come across a comment on Nintendo, it usually is a shut down on the company, or if something positive, then it's overlooked and counter-argued heavily. This also happens with me and my friends.

Most of them would either have a PS3 or a 360. And everytime there's a discussion about one console, someone would bring up the other and exchange patriotic stands with the rest of the group. I would at first want to throw my 2 cents in about the Wii, but my friends would laugh and say its features ain't worth a penny. Then they would go back into saying how either the PS3 or 360 are worth the dollar. Therefore, I decided to no longer have a say in the console wars.

Now, don't get me wrong. I currently own a PS3 and recently had an Xbox, but only for certain games and features. I admit, Nintendo lacks lots of strong attributes compared to the other two systems: Course it's more casual, attracts more family-type audience, doesn't have a powerful processor, graphics cards, online ID capabilities (getting better though), not a strong support on third-parties (I understand, and it has changed), and can be easily hacked. Looking at some of these drawbacks, I figured and concluded that Nintendo should be no longer considered as a subject to bring up to console comparisons and wars. Will it ever catch up to the same plane where 360 and PS3 are? Maybe not. Will it attract more hardcore gamers than the other two? Probably not. Do I care? Yes and no.

And I've seen lots of good support from others in Nintendo. It's just that whenever console bump heads, Nintendo is cast away as an afterthought and PC acts as if it's the ultimate superior being. This is basically my perspective on Nintendo position in the world today. Regardless, I'mma still support it and enjoy this year's new batch of great games. And to add an argument to those who think Nintendo sucks:

- Think about that X-play episode when Gamecube, Xbox, and PS2 had a literal test of endurance. Remember who won?

- On top the endurance, which systems had to go through multiple physical hardware changes and had customers to constantly pay hundreds to get newer versions (All of the them did over many years, but which ones did the most recently)?

- Which console(s) had the most network problems?

This was my angry, Nintendo fanboy side coming out now lol. But anywho, do you think Nintendo is in the shadows in the console competition, or it does have place?